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Thank you for letting us know about your own experience. I am glad you are happy and expecting your wine to be great. We will try for find fresh grapes for next year as well as learn how to properly prune our existing vines in order to increase harvest.

Thank you so much for all this information. My husband didn't want the wine to escape in case the fermentation is still going on. Tomorrow he will make the headspace smaller.

Thank you, my husband recalculated and now he thinks he got just the right amount of liquid. He forgot to call me and tell the good news while I was at work. I will tell him about the amount of whiskey in the airlocks. He is wasting good thing!

Thank you, good to know that everything is fine.

He is the labor and brains and provides finances for this project. I am only allowed to ask questions here on the forum and share with him interesting and useful information. Sometimes I am allowed to ask him questions about the decisions he makes :D.

Thank you, I will let my husband know your opinion and ask why he had left this much headspace.

We got our own 8+lbs of Frontenac, 1+lbs of Cab Franc and 10+lbs of Cab Sauvignon of destemmed grapes, pure berries only. We also received 18 gallons of must from CA. After the primary fermentation has ended there are 11.5 gallons of wine-to-be. My husband thinks there should be more liquid...

Thank you for great ideas and suggestions! We have several people here on the forum who live not far from Salt Lake City. And I have just checked, there is a club in Park City. I should do more research. It is interesting, when we buy wine in our local state store, we see that most people are...

He gave my husband many reasons why they sent us must instead of grapes without calling prior and getting approval. That's what my husband remembers from the long conversation. He was very tired after destemming our own grapes all by himself and wanted just to end unproductive dialogue and start...

You are right of course, thank you!

Thank you for all the information! Yes, my husband called right away and asked why they sent us must instead of fresh grapes. We thought they made a mistake. But it wasn't any mistake, they decided to send us must without prior call and receiving authorization. And there is less juice than...

We were in so much disbelief as well as in shock, so we didn't even weigh them. Adventures started when the UPS truck driver wasn't able to find our shipment for 15 minutes. He asked us how the package supposed to look like. And we told him there should be something big with 160lbs of fresh...

Hope your order arrives on time and everything is as expected. Please share your experience with us! Berries looked normal to my untrained eyes; brix was 24 as promised. Didn't check PH right away. I licked my hands, the juice was very sweet, and I didn't notice any tartness, but my tongue and...

We placed our order on 09/10 and received the wrong thing on 10/16. My husband called them once and asked about the order and was told that they are waiting for grapes to ripen (brix should be 24 by their standards). Then on Monday my husband got an email with the UPS Ground (instead of 2 Day...

My husband ordered 160lbs of fresh Cab Sauvignon grapes from this company https://www.baywinebrokers.com/, he paid for 2 Days Air shipping because we wanted our grapes to be in a great condition. We waited since the middle of September till the grapes reached the proper brix (24). Today the UPS...

Our wine is not going to age! 26 bottles that we made from the Double A Vineyards Cab Sauvignon juice (we bought 5 gallons) are gone long time ago, I regret of giving 2 of them to our son 🤣. Unless we start making a lot of wine, it won't age. Now we have 1 Frontenac, 1 Cab Sauvignon and 1 Cab...

Beautiful grapes! I pre ordered 1 vine of Foch, hope my husband loves it and allows me to order and plant more of them! I followed your advice.

Welcome! Are people growing grapevines in or around London?

My daughter lives with her family in San Jose too and my husband and I lived in Cupertino for 18.5 years before moving to Utah exactly 3 years ago. Children here are different. They are numerous, independent, playing outside and walking to/from school without any supervision. So, I was not ready...

Welcome! I am also a new member here and already got a lot of great advises and tips! Love this forum! Good luck to you with harvesting your grapes and making wine!